[SECC] N1MM Software

[Macie, Gordon]

I spoke to Hal this morning and I mentioned the free form entry. I didnt realize writelog had that as an option. Hal said he also turned it off. I found it worked great in N1MM.. When I first select sweepstakes and saw that I didn't like it but about 10 minutes later I was a convert. They have a video on the website which I haven't looked at yet.. Hopefully it will clear a few things up for me. I know some major stations like K1TTT use it. I think overall it is a little more sophisticated that why I wanted to start a discussion..

-----Original Message-----
From: Sherman Banks [mailto:w4atl at earthlink.net]
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 3:34 PM
To: Macie, Gordon
Cc: secc at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [SECC] N1MM Software


Macie, Gordon wrote:
> I now see KU8E, K4SAV, AA4GA and myself experimenting. Any comments ??... 

I started out with NA and switched to Writelog after using it at a VHF 
contesting effort several years back.  It was an easy transition since 
many of the keystrokes are the same.

I downloaded N1MM over 1 year ago and it locked up several times when I 
was testing with it, so I did not pursue it any further.  I am thinking 
that it was not an N1MM problem but a computer or program setup problem 
since other people that I talked to that used it did not have those 
problems.

I recently watched a video of a PVRC Contesting forum presentation on 
N1MM and was impressed with the features.  It has the ability to use one 
sound card channel for SO2R mode, which is something WL does not do.  In 
other words, I need one channel of audio to go into DXDoubler.  WL 
switches audio channels for a poor man's SO2R.  Yeah, I could have built 
a box to mix the audio, but then I just keep piling on one project after 
another and what I want to do is operate.

Looking at N1MM.com, the SO2R features seem to be a little more 
sophisticated.  WL also has the free form TR style entry for SS, like 
N1MM, but it sometimes get confused about what entry is what.  So I 
turned that off after about the fifth QSO.  N1MM might do that a bit 
better.

I will download it and give it another shot.